Video Introduction

Learning HL7 & standards:

These are links you can find at 'Youtube' -

Interfaceware introduction to HL7

Introduction to Gello

Webcast from the Biomedical Informatics Department from University of Utah (www.bmi.utah.edu/?pageId=2319), notably "Mapping between ICD-9 and ICD10 : a terminology management perspective" - Lee Min Lau MD, PhD.

The CDA Book - by Keith Boone - a clear and easy-to-use CDA implementation guidance with numerous examples, how to implement the CDA standard, understand its idioms and to "speak" the CDA language.

Introduction to HL7 V2.x Messaging (2nd Edition) - the popular HL7 V2.x Messaging introductory textbook.  HL7 V2.x Messaging Study Guide - the accompanying Study Guide.

Principles of Health Interoperability HL7 and SNOMED - covers two leading standards HL7 and SNOMED CT for functional and semantic interoperability.  Tim Benson is a well-known in the HL7 arena.

Verification Results for IT Standards: HL7 - a reader focussing on the formal verification of standards.

Interoperability of Health Systems. HL7 Compliant Implementation Model: Framework for Localizing Health Care IT Solutions Based on HL7 Standard  -  The thesis analyzes current status in various countries and markets, studies HL7 domains and protocol properties, references state of the art enterprise architectures, and proposes the additions to HL7 in form of a reference communication model and localization/verification methods. Some of these models have been successfully implemented by the Croatian national eHealth platform.  Miroslav Koncar, PhD (electrical engineering and health care IT at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia. Business development director for Eastern Europe at Oracle corporation)